Show S 'S I UlD GROWTH The rise of Oklahoma has been unique Nothing like hike It has happened In the tho history of oC this nation It v zis as known Imo to bo ho a fertile region with better than ordinary con conditions of soil an and water with moro more productive c ground in proportion to the total tola area urcA than an any state of oC tho the agricultural Buit But Bu it was hold for the tiro Indians in a belated effort o or of government to repair tho the Injustice done dono by many man broken pledges of oC tho the past As An a 3 result states developed all an aroun around it H. There Thero was a market to the West and to the South There was establishment and development in III every di Ii- Ii At least ono one railroad crossed the territory terri tern tor tory even cven before the first section of It il was thrown open for tor settlement And when tho the land was given to the white settlers of tho the United States to tho the citizens to tho the homo borne builders it advanced ad with tremendous ous strides It was not on tho frontier It was a fertile Island surrounded by a sea of or prosperous activity And An it was tho best a advertised region on tho the faco face of ot the earth Thousands of stron strong mon men flocked to Its broad prairies and cities sprang up almost in a night Because the land laud was really al all that had been believed cd the tho plant was a permanent one In In thirty years ears it has hns advanced from an Indian territory to a state of the tho Union far ex exceeding ex- ex c many mam in population and shamed by none In tho the matter of progress and rind possession Tho Tho na nation ion is richer for the tile addition of ot this state It is Js doubtful f the time Indian is poorer L |